From the Science Rap Academy, here’s a rap a...  ...the Science Rap Academy, here’s a rap about DNA . It goes pretty fast, so follow the captions and...

Identity thieves are usually after your money, but...  ...;s never been to. And there are several ways even DNA tests can identify the wrong person. For example:...  ...going well. They had a semen sample with useable DNA , and it matched DNA of an Alaskan man already in the sys...

Embed from Getty Images Jill Viles was always sk...  ...aly, she couldn’t even get a doctor to do a DNA swab or a blood test -but she sent blood anyway....

Randall Munroe’s latest comic at xkcd is a d...  ...lly cracked the code of life. Sure, we know about DNA . On the surface, it seems so simple: only four ba...  ...we’ve written don’t hold a candle to DNA . Did this comic cause you to view the source co...

A couple had a child with fertility assistance, bu...  ...into a viable baby. But the vanished twin’s DNA survived by being absorbed into the surviving twi...  ...ase shows how a person cannot be defined by their DNA . About one in eight single-child births start out...  ...reason to suspect they have more...

You’ve probably heard that the humans and ch...  ...hat the humans and chimpanzees share 99% of their DNA . Is this true? MinuteEarth looks at how that fact...  ...5w] (YouTube link)First, you have to realize that DNA doesn’t tell the whole story of genetics or...  ...osomes. And the task of comparin...

Thanks to new geneological technology, we'll soon...  ...of obscure records, and unprecedented numbers of DNA tests. And frankly, we’ve got a long way t...  ...Internet to help us build the world family tree: DNA testing. There are now several consumer genetic...  ...genetic services, such as 23andMe and...

Image sourceIf ghosts existed, particularly angry...  ...re the time of the plague in England. Analysis by DNA expert Dr. Ian Barnes revealed a DNA sequence in five of the skeletons that traced the...

(Photo of Watson from the Cold Spring Harbor Labor...  ...n, one of the men who discovered the structure of DNA and the recipient of a Nobel Prize in 1962, is pl...

(Photo: Matthew Jording)Police in Albuquerque, New...  ...$250,000 house burglary in part because he left a DNA sample in a toilet. While robbing the home, the p...  ...n drank a Coke from the refrigerator, leaving one DNA sample. Then he used the toilet. Because he didn&...  ...t. Because he didn’t flush,...